Books about music, the arts and artists (fiction and nonfiction)

Bring the House Down

A Novel

by Charlotte Runcie

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jul 2026

A theater critic at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe writes a vicious one-star review of a struggling actress he has a one-night stand with in this sharply funny, feminist tinderbox.

The Original

A Novel

by Nell Stevens

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.

Contrapposto

A Novel

by Dave Eggers

Hardcover: Jun 2026

A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible.

Song of the Six Realms

by Judy I. Lin

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Judy I. Lin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Magic Steeped in Poison, weaves a dreamy gothic romance worthy of the heavens in Song of the Six Realms.

Audition

A Novel

by Katie Kitamura

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

City of Night Birds

A Novel

by Juhea Kim

Hardcover: Nov 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2026

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever—in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

I Am Agatha

A Novel

by Nancy Foley

Hardcover: Mar 2026

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Sigrid Nunez, a darkly funny and moving debut novel about the unforgettable Agatha, whose devotion to a widow with dementia (and an inconvenient attachment to her daughter's grave) sparks a radical reckoning with ...

Almost Life

A Novel

by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Two young women meet in Paris one sultry summer in a decades-spanning tour de force about the enduring power of young love and the poignant heartbreak of missed chances—perfect for fans of One Day and Normal People.

Partially Devoured

How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life and Changed the World

by Daniel Kraus

Hardcover: Mar 2026

The New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall and Angel Down dives into a horror movie classic to examine his favorite film's importance to our history, culture, and psychology--a perfect blend of research and memoir for fans of the movie, the ...

Saoirse

A Novel

by Charleen Hurtubise

Hardcover: Feb 2026

For readers of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a powerful novel set between the United States and Ireland about a woman who runs from her traumatic past and the secrets she carries to survive.

The Future Saints

A Novel

by Ashley Winstead

Hardcover: Jan 2026

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and In Five Years—a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the brink, from bestselling author Ashley Winstead.

Good Girl

A Novel

by Aria Aber

Hardcover: Jan 2025 | Paperback: Jan 2026

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can't escape its history.

A girl can get in ...